A Brand New Year, A Perfect Time for an Announcement?
Here we are, the year 2010 (is this 'Twenty-Ten' or 'Two-Thousand Ten'?); it still has that new-year smell. Wouldn't this be a perfect time to announce the next TellTale game release? Or at least tell us when the announcement will be? 
Enquiring Minds Want to Know!
Enquiring Minds Want to Know!
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I say "Two thousand and ten", personally. I think it will only change next century, but I could be wrong.
They're pissed now? I guess that means they'll just hold up releasing the game. That will show us "buggers" when we can't buy the game, and TellTale makes no money. That makes no sense whatsoever.
Haven't they heard of marketing? Advertising? You know, getting the word out about the product? Maybe building a little anticipation? I'm personally about ready to delete the TellTale bookmark from my browser and give up. I may check back in a year or two to see if they've released anything. And the way that TellTale's been handling it so far, I'll be able to buy the game at a discount.
"Screw you guys, I'm goin' home!" Cartman
And RoadRunner, it's been less than a month since their last game was released. Give it some time. Have a little patience. They've told us that Sam & Max is (are) coming. You can't expect them to just release it at this very moment.
I'm glad somone here has a sence of humor.
And I Agree with Maxilah, even DURING the season it's a month between games, give them some time!
Would you rather they rush out a half-finished product full of bugs
or
would you rather they take their time and make a game that is interesting, challenging, and acctually works?
There is a theory that the spelling varies according to the rhytim. "Two thousand and ten" is more rhytmic than "twenty ten". Though, I believe "twenty eleven" will beat "two thousand and eleven" next year.
ahem...lol
From all the seriousness and everything. Sheesh...
But then, would it go back to "two thousands and twelve"?
I'm not asking for the game to be released, just a formal announcement, or even an announcement of an announcement:
"We will be announcing the date of our next release on January 31st"
...or something like that. This complete and total silence is frustrating, and frustrated consumers become ex-consumers.
I've stood by TellTale and bought every one of their games as soon as they came out, even the ones I wasn't sure I would like, just so they would keep producing. I won't be doing that any more.
TellTale has now produced Sam & Max (2 seasons), Strong Bad, Wallace & Gromit, and now Monkey Island. You can't expect me to believe that they don't have some idea when they'll be ready to release the first episode of the next series, or at least have some idea of about when it will be ready. All I ask is that they tell us something. Yeah, I was excited when I saw the Sam & Max 2010 link at the end of ToMI, but it turned out to be a dud.
I realize that my MBA is in technical management, not marketing, but even I can see that this silence is not helping TellTale's cause. There's a huge difference between anticipation and frustration; TellTale's has passed that junction.
But I think we are just anxious after the teaser and we want to know more fast. Some people react better to have to wait, others don't.
Although, if it ends up being delayed to 2011 I'll be a little pissy.
Sure it's frustrating not to know. I'm sure it's frustrating for them more than for us. (I'm not frustrated at all by this specific thing but I have been in the past with other similar things).
Personally, I can wait the e-mail or whatever that will give me the exact date. Hopefully it will be a preorder thing so I can preorder it, and forget about it unti the first episode comes out.
(Not actually forget, just... Not be a bother and ask "are we there yet?" every other day on the forum)
When they announced Tales of Monkey Island you could purchase the season straight away and the 1st episode was released one month later. That seemed to be quite successful. I wouldn't be surprised if they employed a similar strategy for the next season of Sam & Max. Also remember..patience is a sharp razor to swallow...
I hope the release it (all) before Dec so STEAM will have it on sale for Xmas
THAT is WHY the world will end ^^!
Just a clarification: The christmas of which year?
That would be great! (that also just narrowed down the release date - 5 eppisodes 1 month appart, to be ready for xmas sale it has to be done by Nov, so Nov, Oct, Sept, Aug, July.
The release date for Ep 1 cant be later than July 31st!
Also, it is just an estimate.
Also, I'm pretty sure we all expected we'd see it before July.
lol what an idea - Release 1 puzzle per week!
most people seem to think Feb. But that was the month given last year when they thought they'd release it. I'm thinking much later...
acctually your right... though I dont know if that's a good or a bad thing... o_O
February seems a bit early. I mean, I wouldn't rule it out or anything, but my guess is more March/April than June/July. Wouldn't be surprised if I was completely wrong, it just seems like advertising half a year ahead of time when we basically got the last game a couple months after it was announced seems a bit odd.
I prefer "two zero one zero" cos it sounds more binary.
Whose luck? Don't tarnish the rest of us with YOUR bad luck brush!
That's a joke, right??
Yeah! If _anyone_ is going to bring the fiery wrath of the gods down upon us, it will be ME! *twisted grin* (is it just me or did that sound like soemthing Max would say?)
On a somewhat related note, who loses money when steam puts stuff on sale? Is it them, the company who made the game? Both?
From what I understand, it's STEAM, the way most DD (Digital Distribution) systems work, is the creator is paid X ammount per download, no matter how high or low the price.
Though it *could* be a %-of-cost, everything I've read says *traditionally* it's X-per-download.